Man i sure would love to play this game, unfortunately after buying it from the DLsite i still cant play it, it just shows a bunch of ??? in between my name. Any help Fellas?
the ??? usually happens when you have a non japanese system, you see if you don't have a japanese system usually it's quite easy to get errors like that, if you don't change the region and
EXTRACT THE GAME AGAIN, it is quite possible that you would never be able to play it.
Something quite funny is that after you change your system to japanese it doesn't affect other games, at least not that I found

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On another point did a few experiments related to this game and... found quite easily it's limits:
-First of all I wanted to test the AI and see how intelligent it is, it was pure disappointment. It doesn't react well to opportunities to attack at any place, decided to open the alternative path to the kingdom by the caves and what I found was that the AI not only didn't focus well on the free opportunity to attack the kingdom but it attacked even less, mainly because it wouldn't accumulate enough units to decide to do a "suicide attack" anymore.
-Another thing to test and it was even harder is... what happens if the hippia kingdom conquers the holy land (with both girls on it) before I do it in a normal gameplay, I did it with the holyland because it was the easiest to do.
First of all I noticed that the AI is horrible, I had to weaken it myself before it decides to attack it, even more the effects were even worse, the captive system was bugged after I managed for the AI to conquer it. It seems that the game isn't made to capture girls that aren't in your army, so even if it's theorically possible for it to happen it doesn't respond good.
-On another point after quite a few playthroughs I noticed that the war with Hippia is too static, you can just defend forever and you don't truly feel any... challenge at all.
To solve all of this and give the game more challenge it would have been great if at the start of the war you only control non duchy related characters and male characters. Basically you would start that part with Seria, Carla, Nora, Erwin, Muriel, the MC and all the male characters that you recruited for your army.
The duchies would remain as allied and you could even send troops to join the garrison after the initial hippia attack over them happens, to give a bigger feeling of rush in the initial attack of Hippia they could capture people, for example in the aura holyland they would start capturing Marion and if you don't rescue her after x months (again depending on difficulty) she will be sent to the castle of Manhur directly. In the case of duchy of Hestia they would capture Wendy and Sabrina, which would follow the normal mechanics of raping them after x time happens. In the case of the duchy of stormless an event related to Kasim organizing a kidnapping to take Leane directly to his castle would have been fun.
Following that note... it would have needed a bit of work in garrisons so that the duchies wouldn't fall too easily without help. On another point to reduce the number of offensives it would require capturing palaces, Kasim palace would mean stopping the attack on duchy of hestia, Manhur palace stopping the attack on aura holyland and the last one to stop the offensive towards the capital of the kingdom. Basically in this system we have the normal army of Hippia that will stay on their territory trying to maintain it and focusing on recovering lost territory, and the 3 offensives to the kingdom that would advance every x months to take it down. Taking a main castle means one offensive less.
One thing more that the game needed is that... if a girl remains too much time in the Hippia army they would be fully loyal and can't be recruited anymore, in fact something that I don't support is using the girls as offensive units, quite easy to recover them, I would have prefered if they became defensive units at certain locations. One last thing to note is that some girls should have bad effects on the kingdom army after they get pregnant by the enemy or take special actions:
-If Chloe or Muriel get pregnant by the enemy it would reduce the number of soldiers in garrison units.
-If Leane gets quite loyal to the enemy she would organize a kidnapping of Seria to send her to Kasim
-If Beatrix gets quite loyal to the enemy she would call her mage units to join Hippia (if they haven't already)
-If Cynthia gets quite loyal to the enemy she would ask Marion to come to Hippia.
-Another point that should have been changed is related to how the harem works:
*The king would only ask for main girls after the player captures at least 2 castles of Hippia, because he would feel that the war is almost over. The first time would happen immediately after conquering the second castle.
*The king would directly ask for a girl to come to serve him in the harem, the selected girl would only refuse if they have very high loyalty 90+, but it will increase the king disatisfaction. If high enough the king would send the bodyguards to capture the girl directly, to lower disatisfaction the player should increase the number of concubines and/or the king expenses.
Things like that would have made the game better